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I’m a cultural anthropologist by training, and I also teach classes in women and gender studies. I earned my Ph.D. in anthropology from ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ. My research focuses on the specialty coffee industry, specifically how ideas about quality and value are determined and shared. My dissertation research focused on Costa Rican national identity as a place of exception, an identity that has been challenged both by the decline of coffee production and the decline of the social welfare state. I currently work with small coffee producers in Honduras and teach classes on sustainability and post-harvest processing within the coffee industry. My classes at CU focus on Latin America, social justice, gender, migration, violence, and representation. I also lead a Global Seminar called Tourism and Belonging in Costa Rica, where we spend three weeks in June traveling around the country, participating in different tourist activities (like white-water rafting, snorkeling, and going to a sloth sanctuary) and living with a host family in a small town.